Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[optomistic] 11/3/2021 14:13

if we are going to go onto quarterly divs then the first qtr in Apr will tell us if we are going to get one or not. No doubt the PRA will have made their mind up already, if and how much. We may as well put them on the Board and let them run it completely and that would be one less shareholder!

[portside1] 11/3/2021 14:09

But did not comment on the directors free hand outs which is way above what they have said

[gbh2] 11/3/2021 14:08

The dividend suspension was lifted, I have a company in the finance sector paying over 6% in April.

[crazi] 11/3/2021 14:07

The divi suspension isn't fully lifted. It never was... Go look at the RNS release last December and then read the release on the PRA website.

Two different stories...

The PRA in the very last paragraph said something like "we will review 2021 dividends mid year"...

Thus the myth that the banks are private companies owned by stakeholders...

[gaffer73] 11/3/2021 14:04

They've had the divi suspension lifted and are paying the maximum permitted. Can't see it being introduced again. There would have to be a pretty bad downturn and I think the bank's would halt them in that case anyway.

[xxxxxy] 11/3/2021 13:43

Bosses say UK now a more attractive investment destination than before BrexitMore than half of British bosses predict they will increase the number of people they employ this year compared to 44pc worldwideByMichael O'Dwyer11 March 2021 • 11:20am... Daily Telegraph

[crazi] 11/3/2021 13:18

Gaffer - I'm not so convinced. Banks still need permission just to pay out any divi this year...

[portside1] 11/3/2021 13:08

And the new ceo Julia hoggett is about as good as a dead fly

[gaffer73] 11/3/2021 13:07

That's the final for 2020. I'm expecting a special and the return of the standard divi for 2021.

[crazi] 11/3/2021 13:05

gaygay - there is the possibility of a mid year divi... but who cares really when talking 0.5p or less

The share price has fallen that amount each day for the past 3 days so the Divi really means sh*ite...

[gaffer73] 11/3/2021 13:01

I don't see what your getting at diku. I was just pointing out there has been a fair amount of life in the share price

[gaygay3] 11/3/2021 12:05

is the div0.57 all we get for 2021 or do we get another div later in the year anybody thanks

[diku] 11/3/2021 12:02

If you use that sort of yard stick to measure what was the point of going down to 24p...why it didn't just stop at 40p then it would be back to 60p area by now...it can even go back and revisit 24p again...then you 66p will look further away...




gaffer7311 Mar '21 - 10:27 - 16272 of 16279
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66p to 24p and back to 40p in a year is a fair bit of movement imo.

[portside1] 11/3/2021 12:01

It's all down to the useless feeling is pockets David schwimmer since he arrived the lse Has gone down the pan he is to interested in is own ends He needs to be removed

[geckotheglorious] 11/3/2021 11:42

"Interesting read, and plenty to be concerned about"

Urgent Open Letter from Doctors and Scientists to the European Medicines Agency regarding COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Concerns





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Kent Covid-19 strain 30-100% more deadly, study finds
The Covid-19 strain first detected in the UK is anywhere between 30% to 100% more deadly than the previous ones, a study found.
Known as B.1.1.7, the new strain had 23 more mutations in its genetic makeup which had also made it 40-70% easier to transmit.
The results of the findings, which are based on the UK's experience, were published in the British Medical Journal on Wednesday.
Out of a sample of 54,906 patients, 227 had died, in comparison to the 141 deaths caused by the other strains.

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[geckotheglorious] 11/3/2021 11:41

”In 2018, Diplomats Warned of Risky Coronavirus Experiments in a Wuhan Lab. No One Listened “
A little-noticed study was released in early July 2020 by a group of Chinese researchers in Beijing, including several affiliated with the Academy of Military Medical Science. These scientists said they had created a new model for studying SARS-CoV-2 by creating mice with human-like lung characteristics by using the CRISPR gene-editing technology to give the mice lung cells with the human ACE2 receptor — the cell receptor that allowed coronaviruses to so easily infect human lungs.

After consultations with experts, some U.S. officials came to believe this Beijing lab was likely conducting coronavirus experiments on mice fitted with ACE2 receptors well before the coronavirus outbreak—research they hadn’t disclosed and continued not to admit to. In its January 15 statement, the State Department alleged that although the Wuhan Institute of Virology disclosed some of its participation in gain-of-function research, it has not disclosed its work on RaTG13 and “has engaged in classified research, including laboratory animal experiments, on behalf of the Chinese military since at least 2017.” That, by itself, did not help to explain how SARS-CoV-2 originated. But it was clear that officials believed there was a lot of risky coronavirus research going on in Chinese labs that the rest of the world was simply not aware of.

“This was just a peek under a curtain of an entire galaxy of activity, including labs and military labs in Beijing and Wuhan playing around with coronaviruses in ACE2 mice in unsafe labs,” the senior administration official said. “It suggests we are getting a peek at a body of activity that isn’t understood in the West or even has precedent here.”

This pattern of deception and obfuscation, combined with the new revelations about how Chinese labs were handling dangerous coronaviruses in ways their Western counterparts didn’t know about, led some U.S. officials to become increasingly convinced that Chinese authorities were manipulating scientific information to fit their narrative. But there was so little transparency, it was impossible for the U.S. government to prove, one way or the other. “If there was a smoking gun, the CCP [Communist Party of China] buried it along with anyone who would dare speak up about it,” one U.S. official told me. “We’ll probably never be able to prove it one way or the other, which was Beijing’s goal all along.”

Back in 2017, the U.S. diplomats who had visited the lab in Wuhan had foreseen these very events, but nobody had listened and nothing had been done. “We were trying to warn that that lab was a serious danger,” one of the cable writers who had visited the lab told me. “I have to admit, I thought it would be maybe a SARS-like outbreak again. If I knew it would turn out to be the greatest pandemic in human history, I would have made a bigger stink about it.”

[optomistic] 11/3/2021 11:33

The trend for the last month has been upwards but it sure looks like they would like it below 40p again :-/